Just the Headlines

200,000 kids Spanked

CNN.com 

More than 200,000 children were spanked or paddled in U.S. schools during the past school year, human rights groups reported today. "Corporal punishment discourages learning, fails to deter future misbehavior and at times even provokes it," wrote Alice Farmer, the author of a joint report from Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties Union"

This definitely is not the kind of thing that you see in the prissy North East, just looking at the handy map that CNN provided the places where this is happening is almost exclusively south of the Mason Dixon line.

But really if those Southern Girls dress like Britney circa 1998 how can you blame 'em?

Associated Press

TOKYO -- Former New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu was arrested Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a bartender after drinking 20 mugs of beer, a police official said.

Irabu, 39, became angered after his credit card was rejected. He then allegedly pushed the bartender against the wall, pulled his hair and smashed at least nine liquor bottles at a bar in Osaka, western Japan, a police official said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

The bartender sustained no injuries. Irabu paid the bill with another credit card.

The police official said Irabu admitted the assault.

When you spend $200 million on your payroll you can afford this bunch:

From Brien Taylor busting his hand in a bar fight, to Carl Pavano who was last seen doing 110 on some Florida highway with $40 million in tow, to the Big Unit shoving a camera man, Irabu pulling the hair of a bartender and fellow countrymen Kei Igawa who has a staring role playing the Yankee version of Kellen Clemens

Please shut up

MSNBC reports: "Lopez, who appeared on 'Good Morning America' Aug 18 to discuss her preparations for the Malibu Triathlon, was overheard saying after the segment that she 'couldn't understand why everyone is talking about that swimmer,' according to a GMA source. 'She couldn't come up with (eight-time gold-medal winner Michael) Phelps' name, and then she yammered on about how she was the one training for a triathlon just six months after giving birth, and how that was the big story right now, not 'the swimmer.'"

I have no comment what so ever.